Notices by Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh) (uliwitness@chaos.social), page 4

I'm hating iTunes more and more. Thought a movie had become available there. It's a rental.

But the button says “Buy”.

Why is that effin' store becoming more and more confusing every time.

Why am I even still buying stuff there?

Because all other options are even worse… At least here I can download and play with my normal movie player. Everything else is browser streaming or a special app.

Re. that last repost: "plotz" is yiddish for the German word "platzen”.

iExplode anyone?

Dieses Foto von Bezau in der Wikipedia sieht aus wie die Stadtfest-Szene aus Trüberbrook: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Wochenmarkt_Bezau_%28c%29_Katrin_Preuss_-_Vorarlberg_Tourismus.jpg

@thomasfuchs Define “Christians”? What event are you referring to?

Protestants/Evangelicals etc. have always disagreed with the Pope (that's why they exist). The Orthodox have had a sort of ... detente ... with him, but only accepted him as a peer, not as their boss. The Anglicans similarly only accept the British head of state as their boss, so I suppose they disagree as well.

@thomasfuchs Ah, I see, the blessing for same-sex couples? Yeah, I suppose there's a bunch of traditionalists among Catholics that would be angry at him for that.

@thomasfuchs @smallsco I didn't think there was a heavier laptop than the 16lbs Macintosh Portable. But here we are.

I still can’t believe that we have photographs from other planets. Like, landscapes on Mars or even Pluto.

Playgrounds with in-line markdown and multiple pages always feel so HyperCard.

@thomasfuchs Values always have to be rounded or truncated for display. It's always a lie. This isn’t really any different from rounding up or down, no? Of course, if you have 3 choices, each choice is actually .9 at the end, and you truncate, and the last choice is 2%, you you can end up doubling the last item with the imprecisions. So I hope they try to be a bit cleverer.

We need an actual, honest-to-goodness “Snow Xcode”. I have this error. For over 20 years Xcode has never shown the actual symbols when complaining about undefined symbols.

But now, double-clicking it or choosing “Reveal in Log" doesn’t do anything either.

Give your developers some time to fix all those bugs your QA surely already found, Apple?!

@thomasfuchs I also like the "build a table of contents and chapter marks for my podcast episode" ... that seems to suffer from comparatively little fabulation.

Interesting video showing off similarities between English and German, and other Germanic languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryVG5LHRMJ4 #language #linguistics

Fun fact: The Proto-Germanic word for “dance” has been lost to history. The word Tanz/Dans apparently came to modern Germanic languages via French.

That's so cliché 🤣

The German translation of Darkwing Duck's “Let's get dangerous”, “Zwo, Eins, Risiko!” (“2, 1, risk!”) is so much punchier than the original.

A good dub can sometimes just be better.

Does The Incomparable‘s Flash Flashcast ever get better about cavalierly spoiling non-Flash franchises ? I‘m in Season 1 and luckily I‘d seen the future Arrow seasons they referenced, but among other unrelated things I‘ve now had The Prestige spoiled for me as well.

I don't really follow racing, but having lived in the area (and biked past it many times), I hadn’t realized the Hockenheimring wasn’t in use anymore for Formula 1. AIUI it's still available for people to race on, though, so "abandoned" in this video's title is over-selling it quite a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BCvm6yP_zQ

(Though I guess their excuse is that *part* of the old track was closed down and turned back into a forest, therefore "abandoned", but please …)

TIL that the original IBM PC keyboard had a pencil tray along the top where today's full-size keyboards have the F-Keys. (The F-Keys were at the left of the keyboard, vertical) #retroComputing

Given the account move means my posts are gone, time for a second #introduction

I'm Uli, an iOS and macOS programmer by trade for a large car manufacturer. In the past I have ported several large apps from Carbon to Cocoa.

I'm a big fan of #HyperCard and am working on a HyperCard clone named @stacksmith in my spare time.

I also like retro-programming on Macs under System 7, and recently on a lark ported AppKit to it too (https://github.com/uliwitness/AppKitForClassic).

@fledermama @Cheatha For about 3 months, Heidelberg had a bath supplies shop named "Bad Design" on Bahnhofstr., before they realized what their sign could be read as and changed name to ... "Bath and More” I think? Doesn't seem like the store still exists, sadly.

TIL: If you are under 23 years of age, there has never been a day in your life where all humans have been on planet Earth. (because there's always been someone on ISS since then)